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Decision Making
An Integrated Aapproach
Fully updated and
restructured, the second edition of this comprehensive text continues to provide an
integrated approach to decision making and the factors that influence decision making in
an organisation. Particular emphasis is placed on how decisions are made, in addition to
reviewing techniques that help managers to arrive at their decisions. Readers are guided
through the various perspectives, processes and techniques relevant to management decision
making, thus enabling them to evaluate and choose their preferred option from a set of
potential responses using behavioural and technical decision-making tools.
The second edition of
Decision Making: an 'Integrated Aapproach. has been updated throughout; includes
more information on modelling approaches to decision making, information systems, new
organisational forms and the politics of decision making; has developed links
between each chapter; contains comprehensive chapter summaries;incorporates a new chapter
on budgeting and its influence on decision making.
A large number of examples
and case studies are provided throughout to act as illustrations and opportunities to
apply concepts and techniques. The final chapter comprises an in-depth study which gives
the reader a chance to examine how the decision-making issues presented throughout the
book, operate in practice.
Decision Making: An
Integrated Approach is ideal for business studies students at intermediate and advanced
undergraduate levels. It is also suitable for post-experience and postgraduate students.
The authors
David Jennings is Principal
Lecturer in Business Policy at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University.
Stuart Wattam is in the
Business Information Systems Study Group at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent
University.
368 pages